Chelsio Adapters Are Dell and Lenovo Certified

Chelsio Communications, Inc., provider of Ethernet adapters and ASICs for storage networking, virtualized enterprise datacenters, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments, announced that its line of Terminator 5 & 6 (T5 & T6) 1/10/25/40/50/100 GbE iWARP (RDMA/TCP) enabled unified wire adapters have achieved hardware certifications for deploying Windows Server based software-defined storage (SDS) with Lenovo and Dell server platforms.

The iWARP standard enables building Microsoft Cloud deployments very quickly. iWARP works with any legacy Ethernet switch, thereby enabling incremental Windows Server 2016 installations without requiring a concurrent forklift upgrade of the switch infrastructure or the entire datacenter. This ability to work with any non-DCBX switch, allows use of a cost effective new or existing switch infrastructure with the least amount of support, while enabling a plug-and-play deployment.

In addition, Microsoft’s support of iWARP protocol since Windows Server 2012-R2 release, has allowed for years of testing for a very robust, tested, deployment with iWARP. Chelsio Unified Wire adapters have achieved Microsoft Certified for Windows Server 2016 and Certified for Microsoft Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC) hardware certifications.

iWARP enabled Unified Wire adapters power a range of Windows software-defined storage capabilities including storage spaces direct, storage spaces for file access, Storage Replica for DR, network direct for Windows HPC deployments, hardware offloaded iSCSI initiator for SAN applications, Nano Server for cloud applications and client RDMA for bringing RDMA benefits to Windows 10 deployments.

“Chelsio’s Unified Wire adapters enable high-performance networking solutions for Windows installations without requiring a concurrent upgrade of the switch infrastructure and help customers to efficiently and cost-effectively scale their Microsoft Cloud environments to derive the full benefit of cloud computing,” said Kianoosh Naghshineh, CEO, Chelsio. “We are gratified by Chelsio Unified Wire adapters achieving Lenovo and Dell certifications for Microsoft software-defined storage which will help users build faster, easy-to-scale and reliable storage for their private cloud deployments.“

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